描述
A game-ready stylized squirrel and reusable ambient-wildlife system for Unreal Engine 5. Includes 4 LODs, 6 fur colours, 14 animations, flee, death and respawn behaviour, Control Rig and an event-driven Blueprint AI with no per-critter Tick.
The AI can drive any custom critter through a species Data Asset without any Blueprint edits.
Built for high performance. 100% Blueprint, no C++, no plugin dependencies.
Ideal for: open-world and survival games, cozy/farming sims, fantasy villages, forest and park scenes, hunting games, background fauna / ambient life in any level, mobile and VR projects that need cheap animated wildlife.
🔰What's inside
🔹 Mesh
4 LODs: 4,026 triangles / 2,536 vertices,
One material slot, so each squirrel is a single draw call.
Custom 35-bone skeleton.
IK Rig included for UE's IK Retargeter.
Control Rig for posing and animating in-engine.
🔹 Materials
One master material, six instances: red, brown, dark brown, black, gold, white. All colors share a single 2K texture set (normal + packed ORM stay, only the albedo swaps).
🔹 Animations
14 sequences at 30 fps: alerted; eating; 4 Idles; crawl, trot, slow jump and sprint; sprint to Idle and idle to sprint transitions; death and sprint to death. Root motion + In-place.
🔹 AI behaviors
Event-driven, no Ticks: critters only execute at movement-leg boundaries (pick target → AIMoveTo → callback → pause timer). One Director actor does all distance checks on a pulse (distance-squared, no AIPerception components).
- Behaviors: Critters are roaming around the navmesh. If any threat approaches, they flee to a safe distance. Critters don't react to static threats. Die from any damage. Respawn after a set time.
🔰 Setup
1. Place any number of BP_Critter actors and set their Species to DA_Squirrel.
2. Place one BP_CritterDirector.
3. Ensure the level has a NavMeshBoundsVolume. Press Play.